Building compassionate AI (Artificial Intelligence) | Emma Brassington | TEDxHolgate Women

Emma explains that AI (Artificial Intelligence) offers us amazing potential in its ability to find patterns across huge amounts of data, well beyond what we can achieve as humans. But human intelligence is more than the intellectual knowledge that AI is replicating. Our ability to connect, understand one another and feel compassion is our superpower. If we want to develop AI tools and products that really support us in the future, we need to bring more feeling into the design and delivery of tech. The tech world needs to recognise the value of emotion. Emma is a leadership coach, working with women in tech to help them increase their influence and impact to become the strong authentic leaders that the tech industry needs. Starting out as a mathematician, she embraced the logical world of software development, and has continued to remain connected to tech developments, working with researchers, academics and engineers throughout her career.

Over the years she discovered the emotional connection that comes from working with people, helping them to develop and grow, which took her into management, business development and coaching. She is passionate about finding ways to bring more connection and emotion into the tech industries, knowing that this is what will lead to products and services which make the most difference to people’s lives. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx